17 December 2025
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Sep 10, 2020 —
Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
The Glenn Show
- Peter’s controversial research on racial disparities among STEM majors
- Is affirmative action leading to a dumbed down curriculum?
- Peter’s work on the lawsuit alleging Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants
- Roland Fryer’s research on race and lethal police force
- Stories vs. statistics
- Remembering Glenn’s late wife, economist Linda Datcher Loury
Sep 9, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Back to school (from home)
- Evaluating Trump’s “everything was fine until…” messaging
- Matt is shocked that Trump is still in the running
- Why is Biden underperforming in Florida polls?
- The story of the Antifa murderer vs. the story of Trump’s military insults
- Is street violence objectively good or bad for Trump?
- Should GOP Senate candidates run as if Biden will win?
Sep 4, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Why the polls may be significantly understating Trump’s support
- Bob and Mickey offer Biden some “Sister Souljah” options
- Anonymous sources say Trump calls dead soldiers losers
- What did Trump mean by “dark shadows”?
- Are things so screwed up that a second Trump term could usefully “heighten the contradictions”?
- Mickey: Democrats are about to flip-flop on mail-in voting
- Bob fears an escalation in violent confrontation between left and right
- Possible pandemic October surprises
- Bob and Mickey on Ben Smith on Andrew Sullivan
- NYT anti-Trump bias (cont’d)
Sep 2, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt: Running against antifa is Trump’s only remaining play
- Trump’s unusual strategy of not running as the incumbent
- Matt wonders whether Trump has an invisible army of potential voters
- After pundits’ many mistakes in 2016, what should we believe in 2020?
- Bill’s Massachusetts primary postmortem
- Is being a Kennedy now an electoral hindrance?
- As goes Jim Gaffigan, so goes the nation?
Sep 1, 2020 —
Robert Wright & John Ikenberry
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Defining “liberal internationalism”
- Should US policy toward another nation depend on its internal character?
- Tensions within liberal internationalism
- The club of democracies, Rooseveltian internationalism, and neoconservatism
- Debating whether liberal democracies are more likely to play by the rules
- How John would shape US policy toward China
- Bob: Our main task should be making America a shining city on a hill
- John’s advice for the next administration
- Bob nominates John for Secretary of State
Aug 28, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Mickey’s unfavorable review of Trump’s speech
- Why Trump is far from doomed
- Does Trump have anything to brag about in his foreign policy?
- How much blame does Trump deserve for the pandemic’s toll?
- The open-carry shooting in Kenosha
- What Jerry Falwell Jr. and Jimmy Swaggart have in common
- Both parties have unstable coalitions, so why hasn’t there been a realignment?
- Bob and Mickey both attempt to claim the mantle of Ricky Ricardo
Aug 27, 2020 —
Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis
The DMZ
- Matt has been impressed by the GOP convention…
- …but does any of it matter?
- Matt’s confidence about Biden slips
- Breakout stars of the convention with an eye to 2024
- Matt’s conservative base focus group, a.k.a. lunch with his mom
- Bill previews the MA Senate primary between Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy
- A tough race for a progressive challenger, and a fake(?) scandal, in MA-1
- The ominous cultural currents exposed by the Kenosha shooting
Aug 21, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Was Biden’s convention speech just a bunch of blarney?
- The political convention as infomercial
- Is Steve Bannon toast?
- Mickey defends the recent controversial changes at the Postal Service
- The Kamala 25th Amendment scenario
- Bob tries to get Mickey to admit he wants Trump to win
- What is the “Charlottesville lie”? And is it really a lie?
- Decoding the Israel–UAE deal
- Covid and herd immunity
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